LGD (Law, Social Justice and Global Development) is an innovative new electronic law journal covering a range of topics relating to legal issues surrounding the impact of globalisation on social development. It contains a diversity of materials including peer reviewed and non-refereed articles, commentaries, work in progress articles, book reviews, and conference reports and papers, as well as information papers, news and details of global conferences.
LGD is the second in a series of ejournals published under the Electronic Law Journals (ELJ) project which provides a forum for continuing dialogue on law and IT and law and social justice issues.(See the E-Journals Mailing List)
The ELJ Project was a collaborative project between the CTI Law Technology Centre, at the University of Warwick and the Centre for Law Computers and Technology at the University of Strathclyde . It is partially funded under the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), which was set up under the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as a direct response to the Follett Report. Following the restructuring of the CTI Centres at the end of 1999, the ELJ Project is now an independent project but with technical and management support from the Law Courseware Consortium at the University of Warwick.
The LGD and ELJ team have established a high standard that is shaping the future of electronic legal journals. They will ensure that they consistently deliver a combination of scholarly content, good design and a user-friendly approach, overseen by the ELJ Steering Committee, and an international body of editors, advisors and referees. With such a global perspective, LGD is of immediate appeal to an international audience of legal academics, students and legal practitioners and anyone interested the legal aspects of globalisation.